"Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct."

“I need that on stage. I need a burst of life. That's entertainment for me.”

“Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.”

“There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles, except that of the titled for riches.”

Source : The Pilgrim Daughters (1961) ch. 6

“Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.”

Source : Jane Kallir, Egon Schiele, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (2005). “Egon Schiele: love and death”, Cantz

“I hate to play a tournament in which I'm not contending. It's just not any fun for me.”

“Sometimes God calls a person to unbelief in order that faith may take new forms.”

Source : Christian Wiman (2013). “My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer”, p.51, Macmillan

“When, about fifteen years ago, I walked into Arshile's studio for the first time, the atmosphere was so beautiful that I got a little dizzy and when I came to, I was bright enough to take the hint immediately. If the bookkeepers think it necessary to make sure of where things and people came from, well then, I came from 36 Union Square ... I am glad that it is about impossible to get away from his powerful influence.”

“The Scripture can only be read intelligently by inspired men and women. The value we get from our reading is in direct proportion to the measure in which we are filled with God's Spirit.”